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Peace Forum: On July 31 Barbara Court of the Friends of the Filippino People will present a new slide show depicting the critical situation which exists under martial law in the Philippines. The slide show, sponsored by Arlington Peace Action Committee, shows how the United States supports the Marcos dictatorship as well as portrays the development of opposition to the Marcos regime. The program will be held at the Edith Fox library, corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Cleveland St., Arlington, at 8:00 p.m. Attend and learn more about how our taxes are used in support of the Marcos dictatorship...
...Portugal's uncertain future was the corps of young officers of the Armed Forces Movement, the group that overthrew the Caetano dictatorship on April 25. The A.F.M. appointed old soldier António de Spínola, 60, as Provisional President and established an unlikely coalition government of Communists, socialists, military men, left-center groups and independent technocrats. But the government simply could not govern. Divided, buffeted by an annual 30% inflation rate and demands for price controls and sweeping economic reforms, lacking in political experience and hobbled by an A.F.M. requirement of unanimity on all projects, it could...
...junta in Greece were matters for Greeks to resolve internally provided convenient, if feeble, justifications for continued American aid to Greece. But even these lame excuses were brutally destroyed this week when the popularly-elected Cypriot government of Archbishop Makarios was overthrown in a coup directed by the Athens dictatorship and executed by the 650 Greek officers who command the Cyprus National Guard...
...face of Monday's act of international aggression and flagrant violation of the 1960 Cyprus Independence Treaty by a desperate and unpopular dictatorship, it is deplorable that the United States government has done relatively little to uphold its obligation to support democracy throughout the world. Our government has not seen fit either to condemn Greek interference and the new Cypriot government--led by a confessed murderer and terrorist whose loyalty and subservience to Athens is unquestionable--or to support, as Britain has done, Makarios's pleas for world powers to "assist the struggle against the rebellion and preserve the independence...
...John Gielgud and Irene Worth narrate. This is the third in a series of political movies to be presented by the Greece Action Group to help raise money for the junta's victims, and while Rossif's movie isn't as directly relevant to the fight against the Greek dictatorship as Z was, the connection between what went on in Spain 35 years ago and what's going on in the Mediterranean now is anything but farfetched. Spain marked the end of a peculiar epoch in modern history, a time when intellectuals dared to commit themselves to political causes...